he feels empowered by the last election that somehow he's been empowered by the public to do exactly what he wants to do and bar the door, sally. he's not going to negotiate, not going to talk to anybody else, he's going to go out there and do it and you saw yesterday at the press conference the fact of the matter, there was no reason for the press conference other than to be antagonistic, as you said, toward the expect them to lay down and in fact, give in to all of your -- all of your ideas and the direction you want to go. >> he says, look, here it is, i'm a nice guy, i like a party just as well as anybody else, he says when boehner and i had that game of golf back in the summer of 2011 we had a good time. but it didn't lead to a deal getting done and he thinks that it's the republicans are just too dug in on their own political positions for any of that glad-handing to make a difference. >> he thinks the republicans, who is the president of the united states of america is the one dug in on spending cuts. look at cbo saying listen, cut 1%, 1%, get the 4.6 trillion dollars in debt